Refusing Objecthood: Web-Based Language Art as Site

This studio course addresses the history and practice of web-based language art, or literature/art made for and inseparable from the web. Web-based language art is space/place/landscape/setting/site; it is not held or beheld, but filled and inhabited. We focus on what this means for web-based language artists, especially those who occupy bodies that have not historically tended to own or control physical sites. Supplementary readings consider other site-building or site-altering language art practices and the materiality of the internet. Final projects will be web-based language artworks, for which participants are encouraged but not required to learn to code for the web.